Myrtle Reed Quotes

One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldn’t change them. Instead of intrusion and passivity, may I suggest submission? Some people make the mistake of confusing “submission” with “weakness”, whereas it is anything but. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe, including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

My motto is never to hold on to anything. I accept and then let go: not just the negatives, but the praise, too. Or it'll get to my head.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

The first step to becoming a more peaceful person is to have the humility to admit that, in most cases, you're creating your own emergencies. Life will usually go on if things don't go according to plan. It's helpful to keep reminding yourself and repeating the sentence, "Life isn't an emergency".

Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.

Accept what comes to you totally & completely so that you can appreciate it, learn from it & then let it go.

Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure as he is inflated by success. He is able to fully live his experiences in the context of a vast and profound serenity, since he understands that experiences are ephemeral and that it is useless to cling to them.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it.

I don't really believe in regret or mistakes. I try to take everything as it is, be comfortable with myself.

The older I get, the more relaxed I am.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.